I have been doing a multi-player lobby check to see if there are any challenges that may have been missed in the hectic start to the season. I am looking at the period from June 1st to June 10th and there are quite a lot. The first player named is the one who has issued the challenge . . .

I am doing the Time Control check this week and I am not sure if klayeckles has started any matches in Classical Antiquity or Late Antiquity (both Division A). Anyone have a match in progress with him please?

A real struggle to stretch the lead to 25% and only secured the win with 2 turns to spare. Every time the Ostrogoths stretched the lead out, the Romans led by their fierce Praetorian cohorts would chew through another Ostrogothic shield wall and tighten the contest up again.

I am doing the Time Control check this week and I am not sure if klayeckles has started any matches in Classical Antiquity or Late Antiquity (both Division A). Anyone have a match in progress with him please?

Still figuring out the pros and cons of this Polish hybrid army. This time around I took advantage of my substantial hill by bringing a mass of massed archers. Protected by a shieldwall screen, they barraged the advancing Dailami and Ghilman of the advancing Arabs, disrupting the Dailami and autobreaking a general and his Ghilman bodyguard. The Arab Naffatun and light troops successfully drove the Polish skirmishers out of the forest covering the left flank, before dropping some literal bombs on the Huscarls guarding the hill. Combined with Bedouin lancers and more Veteran Dailami, they came close to breaking the impromptu hill fort. Unfortunately for the Arab army, their left flank combo of massed archers, raw spears, and Ghilman were overwhelmed by Viking warriors, more archers, and aggressive Polish cavalry. The raw spears lacked the morale to withstand the ensuing chain rout.